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Future Financial problem of Social Security and Mill’s Greatest Happiness Principle Perhaps one of the most pressing issues that confront the future of the Social Security is its financial health. The recent 2014 Social Security report indicates that both the retirement and social security trust fund of the agency threatens to become exhausted by 2033. According to the report, while the retirement program of the Social security is fully funded for the next 19 years, its surplus fund will start to deplete as the retirements of the baby boomer accelerate. At which point, the agency’s current revenue would only be enough to sustain only 77 percent of the retirement benefits; while its disability program can only accommodate 75 percent of its promised benefits. Coming from this context, it is therefore of utmost importance for the Congress to enact reforms in order to put the agency’s programs back into balance (Kurtzleben 1). The pending financial problem of Social Security brings into mind the philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Mill clearly endorses the concept of utilitarianism that asserts that duty or right action is to be defined in terms of the promotion of happiness. One of the main principles of Mill centers on the idea of “greatest-happiness” which asserts that an individual must always act in such a way that the action will produce the greatest aggregate happiness among everyone. Under his conception of utilitarian, the acts are classified as either morally right or wrong depending on the consequences and its relation to the intrinsic good. Mill proposed that the role of the government is to seek as well as provide the greatest happiness of the greatest number (Mill 17). The utilitarian ethics of Mill can be used as a guide for the government in solving the imminent collapse of the Social Security’s financial health. Maximization is an important part of…...

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